The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-28
ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN.
TOPICS DIsCUssED At YEsTERDAYs
SESSION OF THE ARTICULATION

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SESSION OF TEE ARTICULATION
The Women are Neither Fer Nor Arainst
sunrsre-Their Needs efInteiiectusI syfr-
pathy-Thcir Judansent or Cleveland.
The attendance at yesterdays session Of
the American Association for the Advance
ment OF Women wac much larger than upon
the opening day. Quite number OF the women
brought their husbands with them. A number
OF single men also dropped In. but they looked
triHe uneasy. and gave tho impression that
they had como chiefly to see what mischief the
women were UP to now.
Since Wednesday 100 new names have been
added to the membership rolls. There were
large additions OF old members presented yes
terday, too, among them two notable women
One was Vice-President Prof. Maria Mitchell.
LID, OF vassar College. She sat upon the
platform all day. but did not speak. Tho other
was Kate Gannett Wells OF Boston. Mrs.
Wells Is widely known as O writer on economic
subjects.
She Is connected with nearly all the women
reform movements in the country, and is we'll
known In the Boston Emergency Lectures
The presence OF 30 strong an anti-suffragist
as Mrs. Wells gave rise to some animated talk
in the board room about the universal nature
OF the association. Mrs. Lita D. Sayles voiced
It's general drift when she said
I'VE are neither for nor against suffrage or
any ism. We are striving merely for woman's
good. We welcome women OF all opinions. and
we are glad to hear their views. We comprise
rich and poor, suffragist and non-sufrragist
Christian and unbeliever, all creeds, all
colors. In this we differ from every other
womans organization In that our methods and
membership are laid out in broad lines"
At the executive session those reports were
read: ION Science" by Treasurer Henrietta
L. Il. Wolcott; Journalism" by Lillian Whit
ney of the Boston Traveller; working Women
in Labor Excitements," by Mary G. Peckham
OF Providence; Education" BY May Wright
sewell OF indianapolis.
The three oldest clubs OF the country were
represented by specially invited delegation
At the afternoon meeting. They are 80 .
1 MEMS GIns ~ Boston, S re h'9 National
Y. also sent delegation; l. brief poem fron
Conn. No.. opened the session. It was dedicated
to the association and was read by Miss May
Rogers.
eer h 81 SEss Paper F spsnsss ss
5SSss %sjs s5 sig x issvts t. liz
q stature. she and tail Miss Mary +. East
man are known as the long and short Of the
Miss Eastman. by the way; is regarded By
many as the most rcInarkabf woman in the
to know that her pubiic liz began with thso-
logical dissertation some years ago before the
te r' theological Seminary. 1A'' i'''
Presidential canvass as viewed from ,wo-
mans stnndpoint: Cleveland pa5I was pledged to
hated. 'G But dlsveiand was guilty Of social
crime which was the yilest possible In women's
eyes. and they decided against him without
The, trouble was in womans education.
keenest feelings. Blains's was one Of which
parison 81 tho two sins. therefore. could not DO
Woman was not educated to the situation.
MS; Howe followed Up M asqbjsc1 Of Intel Int.
sn% 1a ar
CATION. Yet Carlyle lived in an Intellectual
too. small. That was woman's failure DR..
Julia Holmes Smith accused women OF marrow
sssoaa ps9ss o was "The
BY Mrs. Mary =. Cobb. Mrs: Cobb while she
yas Mrs Rockwell Ta sd matron Of large
Girls at Milwaukee. Her views were the result
Of her years OF practical experience,
HOPE; "a" and 0tsaa from Brpwnns Vas
read by Mars n hs Essmon
phos snas 81 e as sash 'V she
was almost enamored Of death. While living
ing principle here is but its transference to
another existence.
Wits Se his
frames. His philosophy was the same as that
Of most theologists; and she preferred to 60 to
Browning had received more inspiration from
his wife than his wife had got from him.
h bsmns to the to an s haa eTHnE
Florsnos. Italy. In description Of the intu;
sad shs
did not seem to be With US; and when she died
nhs sss bS a IT, AK spRn
Of Paris: 1t was read by Mrs; Sara W Van
ern women and their customs. and told Of the
first wave Of progress among them.
Nv PSsdsht 81 SPf sods a Ssw WIZ Ket
an Archaeological in the French Society OF Archie
oiSE rs u William h Tod Helmutb will receive the
Association at her home. 90 Madison avenue,
this aftern9on from to o'clock. The CON
s s a b 2uh5o oa the ns sfss Of to-
ference on Saturday morning at the home Of
Mrs Mary A. Newton, 1873 West Forty-third
street. Officers will be chosen tomorrow.
Business Men for Theodore w. Myers.
A meeting of the Executive Committee Of
the Business Mems Democratic Association
was held last evening in the Hoffman House
to take action to further the campaign Of
W. Myers for Comptroller. A COM
mittee OF one hundred representing the bust
meas mon in the different down town Ex-